Re: Wget 1.21.1 on old PowerMac

[Tim Rühsen]

On 07.03.21 19:41, Tim Rühsen wrote:
> On 07.03.21 06:53, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> > On Mar 6, 2021, at 22:46, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> >
> > > I'm building Wget 1.21.1 on an old PowerMac with OS X 10.5. Debian
> > > still lacks a stable image for the G5's, so I keep using Apple's OS X.
> > >
> > > $ make
> > > make  all-recursive
> > > Making all in lib
> > > make  all-am
> > >   ...
> > >   CC       malloc/dynarray_resize_clear.o
> > >   CC       glthread/lock.o
> > >   CC       tempname.o
> > > tempname.c: In function 'random_bits':
> > > tempname.c:92: warning: integer constant is too large for 'long' type
> > > tempname.c:92: warning: this decimal constant is unsigned only in ISO
> > > C90
> > > tempname.c: In function 'try_tempname_len':
> > > tempname.c:290: error: 'for' loop initial declaration used outside
> > > C99 mode
> > > make[3]: *** [tempname.o] Error 1
> >
> > You already reported that 2 months ago.
> >
> > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2021-01/msg00004.html
> >
> > I believe it was decided that it was a gnulib bug. (wget requires C99
> > and gnulib fails to enforce that requirement by adding the -std=c99
> > flag.)
>
> TY, Ryan !
>
> @Jeff Could you add the 'c99' gnulib module to bootstrap.conf and
> restart with the bootstrap step (and report back if it worked).
> If that is the case, I'll add it.
>
> Regards, Tim

Sorry, ignore that please.

We just decided to add AC_PROG_CC_C99, which should do the job.

Regards, Tim